Born in the city of Sverdlovsk (today Ekaterinburg). Here
he graduated from the Ural State Mussorgsky Conservatoire (trumpet class;
teacher Professor V. Ivukin) and continued as a post-graduate
specializing in opera-symphonic conducting (teacher ¡ª Professor E.
Brazhnik). He completed an additional course at Salzburg¡¯s
Mozarteum (University of Music and Dramatic Arts).

He worked
as assistant to the chief conductor at the Ekaterinburg Academic
Theatre of Opera and Ballet. From 2003-2009, he worked
at the Chelyabinsk Mikhail Glinka State Academic Theatre of Opera and
Ballet; from 2009-2013, he was appointed music director and
chief conductor at the same Theatre. At the present time,
he is conductor at Moscow¡¯s Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko
Music Theatre.

At the Chelyabinsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet
he was a member of the production team for the following, among
other, ballets: Bogdan Pavlovsky¡¯s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
(2005), Giselle (2007), Valeria Besedina¡¯s El mundo
de Goy§Ñ (2007. World premi¨¨re, choreographer Konstantin Uralsky), the
divertissement-production The Golden Age of the Russian Imperial
Ballet (2008. Choreographer ¡ª Yuri Burlaka); and operas: The Queen
of Spades (2006, nominated for the Golden Mask in the
Best production in the genre of opera category),
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2008), Madama Butterfly
(2009), Rimsky-Korsakov¡¯s The Tsar¡¯s Bride (2009), Emmerich Kalman¡¯s
operetta Silva (2004), Johann Strauss¡¯ Die Fledermaus
(2006),ciza (2007).

His repertoire includes over forty
operas and ballets.

He conducts symphony and concert programmes.
He is a permanent participant in the Irina Arkhipova
presents... International Festival, and in the ballet festivals
In Honour of Ekaterina Maximova and Tatiana Predeina
Invites...

He has conducted the final rounds of the
following international competitions: the S. N. Competition for
Pianists, the M.I. Glinka Competition for Singers. Under the auspices
of the Opera ¡ª New Generation project, he conducted the Gala
Concert for the prize winners of the M.I.Glinka International Competition
of Singers at the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire (Symphony
Orchestra of the Russian State Music TV and Radio Centre). He has
collaborated with the following outstanding singers ¡ª Irina Arkhipova,
Vladislav Pyavko, Maria Gavrilova; and ballet dancers ¡ª Svetlana Lunkina,
Marina Ryzhkina, Andrei Uvarov and others.

As guest conductor
he has worked with various theatres and orchestras in Russia and
abroad. He is resident guest conductor at the Ekaterinburg
Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

In 2008, together with other
members of the production team for El mundo de Goya,
he was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation.

He is the recipient of many prizes from the city
of Chelyabinsk and the Chelyabinsk region.